Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Bharat’s health infrastructure inadequate for a spike in virus cases
Rural areas have poorly staffed healthcare facilities, lack testing labs and have no critical-care equipment NEW DELHI : The exodus of millions of labourers from cities, some of them potentially infected, is set to stretch the capacity of India’s underfunded and inadequate rural health facilities to the limit.
While coronavirus infections have been largely restricted to urban hotspots in India with few rural cases so far, the situation has been exacerbated as migrant workers fled the cities after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced an unprecedented 21-day lockdown.
Public health experts fear the mass migration, the biggest since partition, may trigger an explosion of cases in rural areas where healthcare facilities are poorly staffed,
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